Harry Potter: This senior is pretty strong

Qin Yu and his team had previously obtained the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider mainly from the corpses of dead spiders.

As a result, their inventory was limited to only a dozen pints. Every little bit sold reduced their stock, and they were running out of resources.

In order to ensure sustainable development, the Weasley twins came up with a brilliant but terrible idea—to negotiate directly with Aragog, the ancestor of the eight-eyed spiders, to see if they could get them to provide venom voluntarily.

This is certainly not an easy task.

Given the spiders' volatile and ferocious nature, how could they possibly obediently spit out the precious venom synthesized from their life essence?

Therefore, this method of "extracting venom from live spiders," which sounds similar to "extracting bile from live bears," is actually unreliable and has almost no chance of success.

However, things took an unexpected turn this winter.

—This turning point is actually a crisis for the eight-eyed giant spider.

“As you know, although the giant spider hibernates, it needs to eat when it wakes up from its hunger. Just before Christmas, Aragog, who woke up midway, sent his children to find food. However, several of his children did not return and went missing. Through the blood connection, he knew that these missing children had all died, so he dared not send the spiders out again.”

Hagrid told Qin Yu what had happened in the Forbidden Forest.

“I’m so glad Fred and I stayed at school this holiday. Just a few days before school started, we went to see Hagrid and he mentioned the Forbidden Forest,” George said excitedly.

“Once we found out, we realized that this could be put to good use!” Fred added.

"And then you trade food for them to release venom on their own?" Qin Yu said.

"As expected of you, you're just like us!"

"Haha, you admit it's a good idea, right?"

The Weasley twins, with a knowing smile, said this.

"It's hard to judge... but it's definitely a win-win situation." Qin Yu had no sympathy for the eight-eyed giant spiders; he just thought the two brothers were really wicked.

"It's a win-win situation! We chose birds and rodents, which are the giant eye spider's favorite food, as our food."

"This cost a lot of money. Hagrid made several trips to Hogsmeade to get these things done."

George and Fred talked back and forth.

"Aragok also agreed to the plan. After all, if his children died outside while foraging for food, it would be better to exchange some venom for food. At least, releasing venom would only weaken them for a while, rather than kill them," Hagrid added and explained further.

The next step is to repackage the venom.

Since the eight-eyed spiders released the venom themselves, there was no mixing of different grades of venom. Therefore, they didn't need Professor Snape, a potions expert, to classify the venom.

"Hehe, now we don't need to pay Professor Snape for his services."

"Yeah, yeah, last time he just waved his wand and took away two whole ounces of S-class venom, which is worth twenty or thirty Galleons!"

Two ounces of venom, or twenty or thirty Galleons, is no small amount, especially when the venom is sold out, it becomes incredibly difficult to find even a single drop.

However, the Weasley twins' joy didn't last long before they heard Qin Yu say, "Give me a separate ounce. Snape said the other day that the Octopod Venom is used up."

Seeing that the two looked pained but not unwilling, he went to find a small bottle and filled it with an ounce.

Qin Yu took the packaged Venom and said calmly, "This time, you don't need to give me any money. I don't have time to get involved. You and Hagrid can divide the profits according to your work."

George and Fred were overjoyed upon hearing this, but still pretended to be nonchalant and said:

"I can't accept this." "After all, you're the one who opened up the sales channels, so you should get a share of the profits."

Upon hearing this, Qin Yu nodded and said seriously, "Alright then, since you've all said so, I'll take one or two percent."

"..."

The two of them were both stunned.

We were just being polite to you, but you really aren't being polite at all.

But the words had already been spoken, and they couldn't very well go back on their word, could they? For a moment, both of them looked extremely conflicted.

It's no easy feat to get those two Weasleys to suffer a setback.

This made Qin Yu burst into laughter, then he patted each of them on the shoulder and said solemnly, "Just kidding. I really didn't have time to participate, so how could I share in the fruits of your hard work? As for saying that I opened up the sales channels, well, consider this ounce as a channel usage fee from you."

As Qin Yu spoke, he waved the small bottle of venom in his hand.

He was speaking from the heart. Distribution should be based on work, and more work should mean more pay. It wouldn't be fair to get a share of the money if he didn't do any work. Besides, he didn't care about the small share of Galleons.

The Weasley brothers were much happier now, and thought to themselves that they had been too polite to Qin and had been tricked for nothing.

Then, the two of them happily went to get a bunch of glass bottles and began to divide the venom into smaller portions on the grass outside the cabin.

Because the venom is highly toxic and corrosive, they were extremely careful when handling it. They wore special gloves and used glass pipettes to slowly draw the venom from the large container and transfer it to a small bottle.

Hermione, finding it intriguing, curiously crouched down to observe. Qin Yu immediately grabbed the back of the little witch's robe, then scooped her up by the abdomen with his other hand, lifting her up and moving the curious little witch three meters away.

"Gegegege!"

Miss Granger was no ordinary person; she remained curled up the entire time, and when she was put down again, she was still squatting, as if she had just done a Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V.

However, perhaps because something tickled her, she giggled for quite a while.

"Don't take it lightly. The venom of the eight-eyed giant spider is very potent. If you get splashed, your little face will be ruined. Then you'll see if you cry."

Facing the grinning little witch, Qin Yu pinched her cheek and said fiercely.

Whether by coincidence or design, one of George or Fred, who was operating the pipette, accidentally trembled, and a small drop of pale green, crystalline liquid dripped from the tip of the pipette and landed on the withered grass.

The few blades of grass that were originally still green at the bottom turned charred black the moment they came into contact with the venom, and immediately emitted a small wisp of greenish smoke while making a hissing sound.

Hermione's eyes widened in horror at the sight.

Then, she took small, quick steps and retreated more than a meter further.

Yes, I was still squatting the whole time.

"..."

Qin Yu was speechless when he saw the little witch turn timid in an instant.

Sure enough, things can be learned quickly once taught.

After watching for a while, the two left George and Fred there to slowly package the venom, while they went to help Hagrid, hoping that today's "rock cake feast" wouldn't turn out too badly.